Ethereum developers have agreed on a significant gas limit increase as part of the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, potentially reducing transaction fees to near zero. The post-upgrade gas limit target is approximately 200 million, a drastic rise from the current 60 million. This represents more than a threefold increase in Layer 1 execution capacity, with expectations of further doubling shortly after initial implementation.
The decision was reached during the Soldøgn Interop event held in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, where over 100 core contributors gathered to work intensively on the Glamsterdam network upgrade. According to Ethereum core contributor Tim Beiko, the group confirmed a baseline gas limit target after extensive testing across multiple client teams.
Hasu, an advisor at Lido, highlighted the scale of the increase in a public post: "A fact I feel like almost nobody knows: Ethereum's gas limit will be increased to ~200M after Glamsterdam, a huge increase from the 60M we have today. That's a 3x+ of L1 execution capacity, with expectation of further doubling soon after that. Assuming no similar increase in demand, fees could stay near zero for years."
Several technical upgrades support the planned gas limit increase. One key change includes enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), which allows more time to build efficient transaction payloads. Developers also introduced Block-Level Access Lists for better execution efficiency, enabling clients to prefetch and parallelize transaction processing. Gas repricing adjustments, particularly EIP-8037, which raises the cost of writing new state, ensure that higher gas limits remain safe for network operations without resulting in unbounded state growth.
During the Soldøgn Interop, developers achieved three core goals: alignment on a post-Glamsterdam gas limit floor of 200 million, stable ePBS implementations running with external builders, and final EIP-8037 repricing numbers locked in. Meaningful progress was also made on Hegotá features like FOCIL and native account abstraction.
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